Curious Cases

Dexter from first week of internship

Dexter third week of internship came back with stifle joint swollen Surgeon did arthroscopy and flushed joint

Sleeping Longhorn in for penile prolapse. (this is what Dexter will look like when he grows up)

Soaking Longhorns penis in bucket of dilute iodine.  His penis was packed with sugar to decrease swelling, so it would hopefully ascend back in the sheath

Tuft the paint horse with abscessed right eye

Tuft after enucleation of eye and closure.  The slits were to slacken the skin around the orbit, because it was a tight closure.

Tuft's removed eye

3 month old foal with angular limb deformity called valgus because the legs deviate to the lateral or left and right side respectfully of the knee.

Surgeons performing ald correction by putting screws in the knee to stop growth on the side of the knee where the legs are slanting at so the legs grow more towards the inside of the leg.  As the foal grows the legs will staighten up and hopefully lose the knock kneed appearance. 

After surgery in recovery.  The next day he went home to recuperate and grow.  The screws will be removed later when he straightens out.  But hopefull before he turns vargus or bowed legged which is the opposite spectrum of valgus or knock kneed.

I am now in the small animal side of the hospital.  This is a picture of a blood film taken from the blood of a dog named Puckett that came in for ADR or Ain't Doing Right.  He was covered in ticks to start off with.  His blood when put in the lavender top tube from the syringe was really watery like oil.  When looked at in the tube I didn't even have to spin down the tube to appreciate all the serum in the tube.  His PCV was 20%.  His Total solids was 7g/dl.  When 1 drop of blood was put on the slide to make a blood film it looked like oil.  I could hardly get a feathered edge.  When I looked at the blood smear under the microscope he had agglutination.  His RBC's looked like they were vacuolized.  Almost like air bubbles.  I can only explain it looked like oil drops instead of Red Blood Cells.  They suspect he has Lead poison although i did not see any Heinz bodies.  He was the last case of the day.  He will come back tomorrow.  The vet students told me they are going to pump him full of charcoal.  I think he needs a transfusion.  He walked out of the hospital looking lethargic.  I will try to post tomorrow about the definite diagnoses and outcome of his treatment.  This is a really intriguing (spelling?) case.  I really feel for the guy.  I was wondering if the waterry, serum like blood could be caused by an anticoagulant that the ticks re Because he was really infested with the little vampires.  Or if the ticks were secondary to the cause.  I'm curious.  Can anyone shed some light on this?  I will keep y'all posted about Puckett.